This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1005 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1005 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In what year was soccer's, or football's, last World Cup of the 20th century held? A) 1998. B) 1999. C) 2000. D) 1997. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1998. 2. With which of these is the name Barnaby particularly associated? A) A purple dinosaur. B) All of these. C) The American comic strip (1942-1952) created by Crockett Johnson. D) The UK TV series Midsomer Murders (1997-). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of these. 3. The Yenisei River in Asia flows in which direction? A) East. B) South. C) North. D) West. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North. 4. Which of these is a disease associated with the absence of nicotinic acid in the diet, characterised by dermatitis, mild diarrhea and delirium? A) Pellagra. B) Tuberculosis. C) Rabies. D) Ebola. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pellagra. 5. What were the most frequent subjects of French impressionist painter Degas? A) People in the street. B) Draught horses. C) Ballet dancers. D) Farm labourers at work. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballet dancers. 6. What tectonic plate motion causes earthquakes and landscape changes in Peru and Chile? A) Transform faulting. B) Collision. C) Spreading. D) Subduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subduction. 7. In communication over two-way radios, in use by the military, police and fire despatching systems, and CB radio, what does "over" mean? A) I have finished talking and I am listening. B) I have finished. C) Heard and understood. D) Ended. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I have finished talking and I am listening. 8. Geoff Hunt, Jahangir Khan and Ross Norman were the only World Open Champions in the first ten years that the Championships were held, in which sport? A) Tennis. B) Badminton. C) Squash. D) Golf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Squash. 9. What attracts tourists to Whistler, British Columbia, Canada? A) Groundhog day. B) It is a ski resort. C) Geysers. D) It is a fishing centre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is a ski resort. 10. What are the components of laughing gas? A) Nitrogen, oxygen and helium. B) Nitrogen and oxygen. C) Hydrogen and oxygen. D) Nitrogen and hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nitrogen and oxygen. 11. Traditionally, Easter buns are eaten on which day? A) Good Friday. B) Easter Saturday. C) Easter Sunday. D) Easter Monday. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good Friday. 12. What is the title of an American comedy-drama presented mostly as the daydreams of Dr. John "J.D." Dorian, that follows the lives of employees of Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital? A) Emergency Ward 10. B) House. C) Casualty. D) Scrubs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scrubs. 13. In what sport does the equipment include a spider, a hook rest and a half butt? A) Shooting. B) Fencing. C) Gymnastics. D) Snooker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snooker. 14. The International date line passes through which of these? A) Tasman Sea. B) Torres Strait. C) Cook Strait. D) Bering Strait. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bering Strait. 15. Which is the mode in the list:1, 2, 2, 5, 9 and 17? A) 5. B) 3.5. C) 6. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 16. Who wrote "Badjelly The Witch", "A Little Pot Boiler" and "Small Dreams Of A Scorpion" ? A) Ben Elton. B) A A Milne. C) Lewis Carroll. D) Spike Milligan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spike Milligan. 17. What instrument was used to measure accurately, small differences in vertical heights? A) Catheter. B) Cathetometer. C) Cathedral. D) Cathode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cathetometer. 18. What is the symbol for a 35th wedding anniversary? A) Pearl. B) Coral. C) Ruby. D) Emerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coral. 19. Which of these is used in mathematical drawing? A) Compasses. B) Compass. C) Magnet. D) Protractor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compasses. 20. Which of these countries has the greatest population density? A) Botswana. B) Canada. C) Niue. D) Mauritania. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Niue. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books